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Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College kicks off its 2008-09 World of Dance series with the return of the Argentine company Tango Fire on Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 8pm.

The Theatre and Interpretation Center (TIC) and the department of performance studies at Northwestern University will kick-off the 2008-09 season this fall with a Tony Award-winning musical and two special performance piece events that will examine, document, analyze and theorize on cultural rituals, public identifies and political positions.

Fuerza Bruta ('Brute Force') brings back the celebrated nightlife event DJ CONNECTION that was a huge draw at its predecessor De La Guarda (which ran at the Daryl Roth Theatre for 6 hit years!).

TV New Zealand is reporting that theater and pop star Rob Guest has died of a stroke. The actor was admittied late Tuesday where he remained in critical condition. The actor's family state that he died peacefully overnight while in the Intensive Care Unit.

On Monday October 6th at 7PM the RED BULL THEATER will present a staged reading of A HORSE'S ASS by David Greenspan, roughly adapted from Pietro Aretino's Renaissance comedy Il Marescalco as part of the 'Revelation Readings' series.

42nd Street Moon gears up for its second production of the season: George and Ira Gershwin's great musical romp of 1930, Girl Crazy, the slam-bang hit that boasts one of the greatest Broadway scores including the songs 'I Got Rhythm,' 'Embraceable You,' 'But Not for Me,' and 'Sam and Delilah.' The show previews on October 23 and 24, and opens on Saturday, October 25 and runs through November 16.

New York Theatre Workshop will host a pre-performance event showcasing the influence of documentary photographer Nina Berman's work on the origin of Michael Weller's play Beast on Friday, Oct. 10, at 6:30pm

The New York Musical Theatre Festival announces the three Next Broadway Sensation finalists for their third annual contest, formerly known as Broadway Idol. Moving on to the grand finale will be Shawna M. Hamic, Mike Harrison, and Omar Lopez-Cepero.

Village Theatre announces its single ticket on sale ticket dates for the loveable Disney classic, Beauty and the Beast. Single tickets for the Issaquah run go on sale October 8, 2008 and December 3, 2008 for the Everett run.

Corky Hale, renowned Jazz pianist, harpist and vocalist, will be a judge for the 8th Annual World Soundtrack Awards, sponsored by the World Soundtrack Academy as the closing event of the 35th Annual Ghent Film Festival, to be held in Ghent, Belgium from October 7 - 18, 2008

The Casting Society of America will honor producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron with career achievement awards at the 24th Annual Artios Awards. On November 10th they will be honored with a dinner hosted by Neil Patrick Harris at the Century Plaza Hotelin Century City, CA.

Theatre star Rob Guest is critically ill in hospital after suffering a stroke.

Ellie Covan, Artistic Director of Dixon Place, announced today the opening of the world premiere of FOREVER., created by Laura Peterson Choreography, on October 29, 2008. FOREVER. will be the inaugural production at the new Dixon Place, a state-of-the-art laboratory facility located at 161 Chrystie Street.

You know you want some play. Come see GET SOME, the play everyone has been talking about after a sold-out workshop production in April 2008. It's a timeless tale of boy-meets-boy-then-meets-girl-then-screws-over-boy-while-girl-screws-over-other-girl-and-then-everyone-else-for-good-measure! Performance is one night only, October 21st, at the Zipper Theater. Written by Megan Cossey and Stephen Schulman and directed by Schulman, GET SOME promises a satisfying night of shallow gay comedy, without a single closet-case or scary angel in sight. Everyone gets some lovin', no one dies and, most importantly, nary a lesson is learned by our fearless, sometimes-clothed characters. Naomi (Yue Xu), an ambitious photo-journalist, finds herself out on the street after her girlfriend Corey (Mariah Freda) does one too many downward dogs with their yoga instructor. Peter (Paul Gregg), a struggling actor, needs a roommate to help pay the bills at the suggestion of BJ (Sam Osheroff), his older lover and the driving force behind NYC gay politics. Naomi moves in and drama ensures as everyone tries to get some of what they think should be coming to them. GET SOME takes its inspiration from the gritty streets of Chelsea and the Lower East Side, with much of the action occurring at the infamous Mrs. Wong's Noodle Shoppe and Lesbian Bookstore and Peter's crappy Bushwick apartment. The Zipper Factory Theater is located at 336 W. 37th Street. Tickets at $20 each can be ordered online at www.thezipperfactory.com or call (212) 352-3101. For dinner and drinks: The Zipper Factory Tavern: (212) 695-4600.

The Manitoba Theatre Centre is opening its 51st season with an enchanting adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved romantic comedy, Pride and Prejudice.

My Fair Heathen Productions continues their foray into the dark and irreverent with the fall show, 'Memoirs of Madness'. Opening Halloween weekend, this horror double feature adapts two classic diaries of diseased psyches! Charlotte Perkins Gilman's, 'The Yellow Wallpaper' is an indictment of the patriarchial prescription for 'bed-rest' forced on a woman with post-partum depression.

Variety is reporting that stage and screen actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has just signed onto to lend his voice to the role of 'Max' in the upcoming Icon Film claymation feature 'Mary and Max'. The film center around the unlikely pen-pal friendshipe between Mary (voiced by Toni Collette), lonesome girl living in Australia and Max, a 40 something overweight man who suffers from Asperger's Syndrome living in New York. Eric Bana also stars and Barry Humphries narrates.

Now celebrating ten glorious years of girls, glitz and glamour across the country, the record-breaking smash hit musical CHICAGO is BACK IN TOWN and its PURE ENTERTAINMENT! Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce the return of CHICAGO The Musical for a limited run February 24 - March 1, 2009 at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph St.).

Spiegelworld and BroadwayWorld.com are teaming to bring you a chance to win a pair of tickets to one of three exciting events! Click HERE to enter to win a pair to tickets to see Nellie McKay on 10/12, John Kelly & Dargelos on 10/19, or Jollyship and the Whizbang on 10/20

Broadway actor John Halbach, known best for his performances in Roundabout Theatre Company's 'Tartuffe' and Off-Broadway in Irish Repertory Theatre's 'Beowulf,' has been cast as the male lead role of Paul in 3S Theatre Collective's upcoming performance of 'The Affair in 22B.'